After the Crimean War
"On her return to England in 1856, Florence devoted her life to the training of nurses and started the Florence Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses at St. Thomas’s Hospital, which opened in 1860, with the aid of a fund of £50,000 subscribed by a grateful public. In that same year her book ‘Notes on Nursing’ was published followed by other influential books and articles. The example set by Florence in starting a training school for nurses was eventually followed by other hospitals and the standard of nursing care improved immeasurably, to the benefit of patients, doctors, and surgeons alike." (Hantsweb).
Not only was Florence Nightingale able to increase sanitation in hospitals, but she also successfully helped increase the soldiers’ health in the Crimean War and drop the death rates by roughly 20% in the first six months of her being at the hospital. She even circled around the hospital halls at night for hours at a time to make sure the soldiers were all right, earning her the nickname “Lady with the Lamp”.
"By her death in 1910, Nightingale had lived to see enormous changes occur in the medical field because of her work. She broke through gender barriers and made nursing an organized and respectable profession. Health conditions improved in the military through her work and research during the Crimean War. Eventually health conditions began to improve all over England through her nursing schools." (King's College).
Not only was Florence Nightingale able to increase sanitation in hospitals, but she also successfully helped increase the soldiers’ health in the Crimean War and drop the death rates by roughly 20% in the first six months of her being at the hospital. She even circled around the hospital halls at night for hours at a time to make sure the soldiers were all right, earning her the nickname “Lady with the Lamp”.
"By her death in 1910, Nightingale had lived to see enormous changes occur in the medical field because of her work. She broke through gender barriers and made nursing an organized and respectable profession. Health conditions improved in the military through her work and research during the Crimean War. Eventually health conditions began to improve all over England through her nursing schools." (King's College).